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Joyce Carol Oates

"The gardener is the quintessential optimist: not only does he believe that the future will bear out the fruits of his efforts, he believes in the future."

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"The gardener is the quintessential optimist: not only does he believe that the future will bear out the fruits of his efforts, he believes in the future."

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"In bringing dreams into fulfillment, pay no attention to different obstacles and difficulties."

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"The individuals that will stand or speak or act for the sake of the society must be the kind of people that do not accept limitation."

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"A positive attitude will help you be more inspiring and motivating to others."

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"You are given the potential to excel, whether you do or not is entirely up to you."

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"Every man has been called to produce a certain number of products within the time allocated to him to live on earth and failure to hit the target would mean a wasted life."

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"On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%."

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"The demon blood inside me burned my soul to ashes long ago.I am a monster who once dreamed he was a man. Never mistakeme again."
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"There are some secrets so toxic you can't share. Especially if you love who it is you'd have to share with."
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"You never give such relationships a thought, To give a thought, to take a thought is a function of dissociation, distance. You can't exercise memory until you've removed yourself from memory's source."
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"The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable."
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"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."
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"Nowhere in a hospital can you walk without blundering into the memory pools of strangers-their dread of what was imminent in their lives, their false hopes, the wild elation of their hopes, their sudden terrible and irrefutable knowledge; you would not wish to hear echoes of their whispered exchanges-But he was looking so well yesterday, what has happened to him overnight."
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"This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash."
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"It is utterly naive, futile, uninformed-to think that our species is exceptional. So designated to master the beasts of the Earth, as in the Book of Genesis!"
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"The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way."
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"For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power."
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